Epager question

Mark Guzzo marguz at ameritech.net
Tue Sep 24 22:06:15 CEST 2002


I WORKS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
:-)

That was it. Thanks A LOT for all the feedback :-)


On Tue, 24 Sep 2002 14:41:39 -0500
"Nolan Martin" <Nolan.Martin at co.travis.tx.us> wrote:

> From the original/referenced e-mail by Steve Loughran:
> 
> * * *
> 
> you either have to set the hostname of the host to a fully qualified
> and
> `real` externally visible hostname (or at least a hostname that has a
> valid
> MX record for it), or you can cheat and tell sendmail what host it
> should
> think it is by editing /etc/sendmail, find the line that looks like:
> 
>     #Dj$w.Foo.COM
> 
> and then uncomment and change it to:
> 
>     Djmyreal.hostname.com
> 
> the hostname **MUST** be a name that has either a real name to IP
> lookup in
> the outside world, or **MUST** have a valid MX record tied to that
> hostname
> (or most anti-spoofing rules in mail servers will deny it)
> 
> Steve
> 
> 
> * * *
> 
> 
> 
> >>> Mark Guzzo <marguz at ameritech.net> 09/24/02 02:23PM >>>
> I looked for the post, but I could not find it. Can you please send
> it.
> 
> 
> 
> On Tue, 24 Sep 2002 13:31:46 -0500
> "Nolan Martin" <Nolan.Martin at co.travis.tx.us> wrote:
> 
> > Yes, Metrocall does do a reverse lookup.
> > 
> > If you configure your sendmail with an organization that ties to a
> > valid MX record, you should be in good shape.
> > 
> > Check out Steve Loughran's posting on 8/22/2002 around 3:16 PM
> (subject
> > RE: mail notifications).
> > 
> > Nolan
> > 
> > 
> > >>> Terry Simons <galimore at mac.com> 09/24/02 11:42AM >>>
> > It looks like page.metrocall.com might be checking the name of the
> host
> >  
> > that is sending the mail...
> > 
> > Do you have valid forward and reverse records set up for your host?
> > 
> > Is k1044nm.shsystem.org actually the name of your host?
> > 
> > I could be completely wrong though... can anyone else elaborate?
> > 
> > - Terry
> > 
> > 
> > On Tuesday, September 24, 2002, at 09:54 AM, Mark Guzzo wrote:
> > 
> > > Hello again,
> > > Still having problems with Epage.
> > >
> > > I tried this as root...
> > > mail -s test 115001675 at page.metrocall.com 
> > > and it still did not work.
> > >
> > > I then checked the root mail for a return reason on the mail and
> > found  
> > > this...
> > >
> > > The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
> > > 115001675 at page.metrocall.com 
> > >     (reason: 501 <root at k1044nm.shsystem.org>... Sender domain must 
> 
> > > exist)
> > >
> > >
> > > What! I'm really a sendmail dumba$$! Can someone please help :-(
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On Tue, 24 Sep 2002 08:12:11 +0200
> > > "Tom DE BLENDE" <tdeblend at gcc.dhl.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >> Hi,
> > >>
> > >> Make sure your epager client is not returning any output back to
> > >> Nagios. Redirect all output to /dev/null or check whether it has
> > got
> > >> some kind of a -quiet switch.
> > >>
> > >> Kind regards,
> > >> Tom
> > >>
> > >> Mark Guzzo wrote:
> > >>>
> > >>> Strange, the mail command will work on the command line to send a
> 
> > 
> > >>> email but when
> > >>> I try to send a email-page, I get nothing. No error or nothing.
> But
> >  
> > >>> if I use my
> > >>> email client to sent an epage, it works.
> > >>>
> > >>> On Mon, 23 Sep 2002 16:42:47 -0400
> > >>> "Bishop, Dean" <dean.bishop at tcdsb.org> wrote:
> > >>>
> > >>>> i just got mine working, the problem: quotes were incorrect in
> > >>>> misccommands.cfg
> > >>>>
> > >>>> here is my entry:
> > >>>>
> > >>>>       command_line    /bin/echo -e
> > >>>>
> > 'Svc:$SERVICEDESC$\nHost:$HOSTNAME$\nIP:$HOSTADDRESS$\nInfo:$OUTPUT$
> 
> > >>>> \n' |
> > >>>> /bin/mail -s '$NOTIFICATIONTYPE$: $HOSTALIAS$/$SERVICEDESC$ is
> > >>>> $SERVICESTATE$' $CONTACTPAGER$
> > >>>>
> > >>>> and my contact has a pager entry of 4165551212 at mrpager.com 
> > >>>>
> > >>>> hth,
> > >>>> dean
> > >>>>
> > >>>> -----Original Message-----
> > >>>> From: Mark Guzzo [mailto:marguz at ameritech.net] 
> > >>>> Sent: Monday, September 23, 2002 4:28 PM
> > >>>> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net 
> > >>>> Subject: [Nagios-users] Epager question
> > >>>>
> > >>>>
> > >>>> I can't seem to get the epager notification to work. I have
> Nagios
> >  
> > >>>> running
> > >>>> on a
> > >>>> basic RedHat 7.3 install.
> > >>>> Email does work just not epager.
> > >>>>
> > >>>> Any info if the scripts need to be changed for my install?
> > >>>>
> > >>>> ^^^ got Linux ^^^
> > >>>>
> > >>>>
> > >>>> Mark Guzzo
> > >>>> Citrix Administrator
> > >>>>
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> ^^^ got Linux ^^^
> 
> 
> Mark Guzzo
> Citrix Administrator
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